In order to use tenanted land for setting up of projects for community or public purpose, the Goa government has introduced the Goa Land Use (Regulation) Bill, 2024 seeking amendment to Section 3 of Goa Land Use (Regulation) Act, 1991 so as to specify in the Right to Fair Compensation …
Seek extension of deadline for Omkareshwar evacuation Around a thousand Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) activists staged a protest in front of the Narmada Valley Development Authority (NVDA) here on Monday, against the delay in rehabilitation of evictees of five dams. More than 200 policemen in riot gear manned barricades from …
The huge protest in the name of the Narmada Jeevan Adhikar satyagraha and Upwaas launched yesterday by the oustees of the Maheshwar, Maan and Upper Beda dams at Bhopal yesterday, enters its second day today, with the oustees are demonstrating will their full vigor and strength, demanding that the oustees …
Outsees of various projects on Narmada formed a human chain and took out a rally from Neelam Park, to Budhwara and Yadgar-e-Shahjehani Park, on Sunday. A large number of oustees from Omkareshwar, Maheshwar and Indira Sagar dams and others participated in this. Demanding relief and rehabilitation, a large number of …
Warning comes after the approval by a sub group of the Narmada Control authority to a proposal to raise height of the dam from 122 meters to 138.68 meters Medha Patkar has warned of a situation similar to Uttarakhand in the Narmada Valley in Madhya Pradesh if the height of …
In early 2006, Singur in West Bengal became the epitome of peasants’ struggle against neo-liberal expansion in land and livelihoods in India. Meanwhile, in 2010 the struggle in Sompeta exposed politics of ‘power’ in the name of energy production in Andhra Pradesh. Villagers and fishers there resisted the development of …
Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh on Friday met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and sought a Rs.1,000-crore package immediately to carry out relief and rehabilitation work in the State’s flood-affected areas. Mr. Virbhadra informed Dr. Singh that so far 24 lives have been lost in the State while 1,239 people …
’’We have been rescuing rhino calves at Kaziranga in various circumstances and most of them are now successfully hand raised at the CWRC. At due course of time, all these calves go back to the wilderness again’’ A female rhino calf – Purabi – on Friday was translocated to Manash …
Residents of Charu Khet say they would have been languishing in apathy if not for the deluge It is a small hamlet of about a dozen households just off the national highway near the Narendra Nagar bypass in Tehri district. And Charu Khet is noticeable only because of a huge …
Exchange plan to make forest land easily available for irrigation projects The Water Resources department has hit upon a novel plan to solve the problem of acquiring forest lands for its projects: Grow forest on its land and exchange it for the Forest department’s land required for implementing irrigation projects. …
The Price of Steel: Human Rights and Forced Evictions in the POSCO-India Project documents the human rights abuses being carried out to facilitate the establishment of the POSCO-India project, and the associated illegal seizures of land which threaten to forcibly displace as many as 22,000 people in India’s eastern state …
Says the ill-gotten wealth should be recovered and used for reclamation and rehabilitation The National Committee for Protection of Natural Resources (NCPNR) has urged chief minister Siddaramiah to take steps to initiate punitive action against companies involved in illegal mining and the officials who connived with them. Founder president of …
Villagers hit by floods and landslips raised antigovernment slogans as Uttarakhand Chief Minister Vijay Bahuguna and Agriculture Minister Harak Singh Rawat landed at the Rudraprayag helipad on Wednesday. The flood victims demanded to know why authorities had failed in disaster mitigation efforts earlier and were failing now in providing relief …
Only 77 could be evacuated as IAF choppers lacked fuel The death toll due to landslides and collapse of houses in Kinnaur rose to 14 with recoveries of four more bodies from Pooh. The airlifting of stranded persons was hampered as helicopters of the Indian Air Force ran out of …
Says non-availability of land is major bottleneck for the growth of industrial sector in state Industry body Associated Chambers of Commerce (Assocham), said non-availability of land is a major bottleneck for the growth of the industrial sector in Karnataka. The chamber has suggested the new government in the State to …
Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - Islamabad—Provincial Government of KPK directs Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA) to take quick rehabilitation measures in flood-hit areas. The provincial government also directed PDMA and district administrations to carry out detailed survey to assess the losses of lives and property, reported PTV. District Coordination Officer …
Uttarakhand today announced its first resettlement and rehabilitation policy for hydel projects. It claimed the policy was the best in the country. At a meeting of the Cabinet here, presided by Chief Minister Vijay Bahuguna, the government decided it would provide Rs 2 lakh a hectare for the development of …
Bhubaneswar : Seventeen years after Parliament passed the PESA Act that empowers tribal society to take control of their own resources, the Orissa government has finally decided to make necessary changes to the Act to implement it in the state. The Panchayat (Extension to Schedule Areas) Act covers tribal areas …
JAIPUR: In an attempt to woo the electorates ahead of assembly polls, chief minister Ashok Gehlot on Thursday laid the foundation stone of a rehabilitation housing scheme for the residents of Sanjay NagarBhattaBasti under Rajiv Gandhi AwasYojana (RGAY). Gehlot also extended the date of ongoing "PrashasanShahronKe Sang" campaign. Touted as …
BHOPAL: Project affected people (PAP) from the five major dams being built on Narmada river will stage a protest against the government's rehabilitation policy in the state capital from June 18 to June 22. The call for the agitation has been given by the Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA). While the …
While the government tries to make up its mind whether to adopt the legislative route or promulgate an ordinance for implementing the National Food Security Bill, political parties are clearly divided on the issue. Sources disclosed that the BJP decision is to neither oppose a special session nor the Bill …
